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A ;-) At The Past And Future Of English, Tiffany Li
A ;-) At The Past And Future Of English, Tiffany Li
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It is always with a certain amount of wry, knowing amusement that we turn to the thoughts of people from the past remarking on the future (that is, our present). It is similar to how slightly older children view slightly younger children. They were so innocent then, those thinkers of the past! Look at what they thought computers could do, what language could be! How adorably naïve! Not like us, we who have put away our childish things.
Of course, the science fiction of our present may someday seem as pathetically misconceived as that of the past. So, too, will …